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Boston marathon start times 2013 EDT:

9:00 am Mobility Impaired

9:17 am Wheelchair Division

9:22 am Handcycles

9:32 am Elite Women

10:00 am Elite Men & Wave One

10:20 am Wave Two

10:40 am Wave Three

Explosion happened somewhere around (edit) noon PST, 3pm EDT. A little before. Elite women marathon times are in the 2:15 and slower range. Elite men are 2:05 and slower. Not sure about likely times for the earlier groups.

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Noon? Umm, are you on the west coast?

I think you are using start times in East Coast time and then doing calculations based on the explosion occurring West Coast time.....

The elites were long, long over the finish line when this happened.

Thanks - I misread. I updated the comment.

There is a vine link that shows the explosion elsewhere on this post; it shows a gun time of 4:09:44 (although not sure when 0:00 would be)

A video from AP [1] shows the finish line timer displaying 4:09:44 when the first explosion goes off.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vJnC2zgriU&feature=playe...

Nitpick: those times are EDT (UTC-04:00), not EST (UTC-05:00).

Your explosion time is off. Happened around 3pm Eastern

So that means it'd correspond to finish times likely for amateur runners with times in the 4:20 - 4:40 range, averaging 10 - 11 mins/mile.

The finish clock on the video is correct, but it's very likely for third wave runners who started forty minutes after the first wave. So they finished in 4:09, but 4:49 from the start of the elite race. Made no sense to me at first because I was in the first wave, was walking back to my hotel 4:09 after my start, but heard nothing. Tacking on forty minutes makes the timeline add up, as I was napping by then (and wondering why sirens were interrupting my nap).

What? The explosion was just before 3:00 pm.

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